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You should visit both Youngstown Ohio and Niagara Falls New York and do videos on their political corruption and how organized crime controlled both cities.
I was born in Detroit, my parents too. Grandparents came from Canada before 1900. What happened to this city, which was the most prosperous in the US in 1950 can happen anywhere. My father had to sell all my grandfathers properties, in the early 70's, because you couldn't collect rent. Owe 6 mo rent, pay one, city wouldn't allow eviction. Ended up being sold to Detroit cops at a massive discount, who could 'encourage' payment. So who benefited? The renters? They ended up harassed until they paid up by their new landlord. The 60's weren't great for the city, but the 70's set the stage for what happened later. If you look at a sat view of the city, remember all the empty lots had homes and families in them at one time. Detroit is an example to the rest of the country, don't think it can't happen to you. When we visited Detroit, we would drive past places and my mother would cry as they were gone. I have problems even watching this as I'm sure I rode past these places when homes and people walked and lived.
I just moved to Detroit and bought a home for $1000 it’s so sad that they’re so run down and that anyone could buy one to fix up for that small of an amount. As I drive past the homes that we’re burned down by vandalism or just because people had to leave them. It makes me think of how beautiful this city use to be 100 years ago and how corrupt it is today.. people still throwing Their trash out the car windows instead of finding a garbage can or lazy around here and it ticks me off! Most of the time I hate to say it there colored people because if you watch the videos 100 years ago when the city was flourishing It was full of white people and then when the 1960s and 70s hit the white people left the community and the colored people stayed and just destroyed it. And not saying that because I’m racist I’m saying it because I’m actually witnessing it they’re not taking pride in anything but they have and they just gladly throw their garbage out the window to make the city look horrible don’t understand just because you’re poor doesn’t mean we have to live in a trash hole community. I’m just saying I’ve witnessed this by moving here myself the first house we moved into a few months ago we kept to ourselves and it wasn’t fun waking up to bullets being sprayed into our house by colored people luckily no one was hurt or killed so we decided to move and find another house we went back a day and a half later To finish getting our belongings And the landlord that was renting that house to us decided to be a jerk and set it on fire! I know this to be true because his car was gone out of the garage the next day. Also very sad that if you are a white person coming into Detroit there are very many still racist color people that take a look at you and they try to find a way to make it hard for you to live around them it’s sad I don’t understand why everybody can just get along and quit pulling the racist card or your white card you have white privilege heard that many times and that’s not the case I’m sorry if I like my house clean picked up and garbage not around my house I just wish everybody could get together and make this city beautiful once again instead of fighting with each other and having guns go off in the middle of the night around My house in neighborhood I wish everybody would just get along and make everything look beautiful again rather than leave it as a dive hole
@@lindsaydelyon3363 you are witnessing the reasons and attitudes that continue the downward spiral.... no surprise your house went for a thousand dollars... good luck... hope you have at least a few good neighbors
@@lindsaydelyon3363 yea but what makes your comment racist, is that when you meet a "colored" person born and raised in a nice neighborhood they don't act like that. It's all about environment, the behavior your referring to stems from living in poverty in densely populated areas, which results in broken households that cause kids to grow up in a life of crime and stupidity not just because its one of the only ways for them to make money, but because if they went on a better path they would be treated like garbage from everyone around them and they don't have the money to get away, and they don't know any better. Understand this and you'll no longer think that only "colored people" behave like that..
I'm 34, from the burbs, and I wish I knew more of the political opinions of detroiters. It seemed like so many people defended kilpatrick. I could be mistaken due to my flawed point of view. I do love the city, though.
He was incredible. I worked on both of his campaigns. I truly wanted Freeman Hendrix, his deputy to be the successor. But Detroit wanted corrupt politics and elected the worst mistake ever and it's struggled to recover.
I'm not a Detroiter. But, I read that both Dennis Archer and Freeman Hendrix were considered not "black enough" for the black peoples of Detroit. Which is a total shame.
I live in a van on Clark Street where I work as a truck driver, a freaking 13 year old robbed me at gunpoint in broad daylight In front of a gas station, he was caught the next day robbing a elderly black Vietnam veteran
Mike Dougan is a Multi Millionaire..he’s the Villain not Victim. This creator is skewed and political. Trust from a Citizen. Detroit was Happier with the older Mayors.
I truly enjoyed your video. I'm a big Detroit supporter and it breaks by heart to hear these stories. I hope Detroit will see much better days. Go Lions!
Should've took every main road from downtown to 8 mile, Jefferson,Gratiot,VD, Woodward, and complimentary stroll down livernois to document our attempt at a black wall street
Although I moved to Detroit recently, I've seen horrendous things. People die of poverty and freeze in the winter. All that while those criminals embezzled millions of dollars to splurge them on cars and clothes. Disgusting.
@@Odieson33 idk look at the city during the pandemic payouts, homelessness and poverty almost disappeared for about a year. All Detroit be needing is money.
Actually, the big 3 did decline, the unions lost their leverage (some of it do to corruption), the car insurance while living in Detroit was ridiculous, property taxes in most area was high, the department store moved to the suburbs, most of the major groceries store moved to the suburbs or closed , etc. There were many reasons why people left the city including younger people not wanting to work for the big 3 as technology was on the rise.
Oh, no, no, no, no.........the civic organizers and other Progressives ascribe it all to racism and White Flight. And you know, if you disagree with a Progressive, you, too, are a racist.
Car Insurance in the ENTIRE State of Michigan is higher than 70 percent of the Nation due to no fault insurance - the dumbest and most expensive car insurance I've ever paid after living in 20 States
Detroit's current big problem is what to do with 10s of thousands of acres of residential and commercial abandoned buildings and land, plus many acres of closed schools. With very few manufacturing jobs nearby, this land will likely never be used for their original purpose. IMHO, much of this should be turned in farms or orchards.
There other possible solution to Detroit's current situation is to turn over huge amounts of land the the county. They won't lose much tax revenue and they will no longer be responsible any public services.
No! It needs to create jobs for the inner city people specifically to lower the crime rate! Give people the necessities they need to survive you won’t have to worry about the economy. But wait, the reason why things are the way they is because IT’S BY DESIGN 😳🫢😬
Very good and a good analysis since the Colman Young era. I left in 1995. I had a business on West Grand Blvd. in the New Center area. It really is a tragedy as to what happened to Detroit since the 1950`s. Their was also corruption in the courts, the school board, etc. Certain areas in the downtown are reviving but many neighbors hoods are violent crime infested areas. Conyers, the city council women convicted of bribery was married to John Conyers,, a congressmen from Detroit who was the chairman of the House Judiciary committee. He had to resign from Congress after a long career. Excellent report.
I love how her last name is Conyer, because all she do is con yer money away. Kinda like one of those fake names they make for fake stories in the news. Never forget when they carted out George Floyd's 4th grade teacher on the news and her name was literally Wanal Sexton.
Approx 50% of Detroit is functionally illiterate. My father was a teacher and said on any given day 1/4 of his class would be absent. It was never the same kids so do you go back and help them and stop the progression of the others or move on and let the others fall farther behind. He felt it was a losing proposition.
@@davidcruz2346 You can call BS all you want. A simple Google search will prove you wrong. Quit being lazy and ignorant. Try looking something up before you make yourself look like a fool.
If Detroit was the first city built with single-family homes for the factory workers, where a car was necessary to get around is considered a total failure. The loss of population and tax base could be an example of what is to become of many cities in the USA. We need to re-evaluate the so-called American dream as they are too expensive to maintain. You spend the city's taxes to expand in the hinterlands while not investing in the communities that are paying the taxes. Look at the difference between European cities and American cities and you will see America has neglected to invest in communities. We are our own fools, it will be very expensive to maintain what we have built, so we will see more Detroits in the future.
Huh? Nobody spent City of Detroit tax money to expand outside the borders of the City of Detroit. For a while, it was just the opposite happening once the City began to levy income taxes on non-residents who worked inside the city limits. Suburban residents were subsidizing the city via the payment of income taxes. Or, at least they did, until the employers moved en masse outside the city limits to escape the Detroit income tax. In essence, jobs and workers moved away, leaving only the elderly living on fixed incomes, the jobless, the disabled, and the very poor living in WW II aging housing that, as you point out, they could not afford to maintain. Oh, I think I must admit that a lot of City, County, and Federal employees with jobs downtown remained living in some of the nicer parts of Detroit. The corruption described in this video blog is just the tip of the iceberg. The Detroit Public Schools are a mess, and they are a mess due to corruption.
After 29 years in the Detroit area (inner city and Metro), Detroit will always be Detroit. There's good things happening, but only in small specific areas of the city, and everything else is still as bad as ever. Doesn't help the civilians there consistently push back against any newer businesses/housing infrastructure that's proposed there. Until the neighbors of Detroit learn to change, the culture and daily life won't change. It's all gentrification when something nice is proposed, and blind loyalty when the detectives come knocking for critical info to solve crimes. I wish Detroit the best of luck I really do. I love the Motor City.
I just like to mess with your mind. - in all seriousness I think TH-cam just does that sometimes. I often see comments that I heart, (or respond to even) only to come back to it later and not see a heart (or my response.) Don’t know why.
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Trump's pardons of Kwame Kilpatrick and Rod Blagojevich were bizarre and obviously corrupt but they also make me wonder about all the pardons of people we've never heard of.
@@stephenbrand5661 Trump did pardon him. Kwame's handlers paid him. I cannot believe anyone typed that. But of course people are trying wash over everything and fake ignorance.
The only reason Detroit is still showing signs of hanging on and hasn't totally collapsed...you've got two billionaires competing with each other to see who can outdo the other. Venture capital has come into the city and you're seeing huge improvement in the midtown area. I grew up in West Dearborn in the 60's and 70's....Detroit was a toilet for most of those years. The filth and destruction started to move out into the burbs and my parents moved out of Dearborn 22 years ago. They now live in Berkley, MI not far off of Woodward Ave. You can drive down Woodward towards Detroit and gradually see the decline. Once you get past the gay community of Ferndale...it starts downhill fast. After you cross into Highland Park and before you cross I-94 and into the Midtown area....you're pretty much in no man's land. When you see the sign for the Detroit Institute of Arts in the Midtown area, congratulations....you've survived and are now in a relatively safe area.
I lived through all of this stuff and I am so ashamed of it all. The FBI should stay PERMANENTLY to oversee this city. Im the most ashamed of Kwame Kilpatrick , Charles Pugh Monica Conyers. All 3 of them should still be in prison.
Yes role models like that how dose the lure of easy money stop? If Mich. Is to weak to make examples of theses theifs you'll just get more and you'all did. Fool me once shame on me fool me twice shame on, going for another?
Thank you for everything you've put here on your channel, very informative and well done. You passed Mt. Olivet (near City airport) which is where my family burial plot is.
I really enjoy your videos Chris! I'm across the river in Windsor Ontario and sometimes you go down streets that i have been on and it's very cool, keep up the good work.
As a Lansing native I can 100% say Detroit is somehow more corrupt than Lansing. If you know Lansing politics you KNOW how corrupt it is. The automotive industries needed transformers due to their large power consumption. They petitioned the mayor for a new transformer to be built on THEIR premise, it would have worked well, after all only they needed the power. Instead the mayor ripped up and destroyed one of most beautiful and largest sunken gardens in the United States. To replace it with a concrete slab and some transformers. It's horrible, many people had weddings and family photos there.
Truthfully it’s simple. Property taxes are absolutely absurd in Detroit for what you get out of living there. Then the money they do acquire from city taxes is consistently mismanaged year after year. Need business incentives and property incentives ran in a non-corrupt manner. Even the Detroit Land Bank Authority that’s offering properties for $100 choke you by placing liens on your property that you acquire which doesn’t allow you to get proper financing to develop land. You essentially have to have money in hand for development. It’s completely assbackward. Not only that, there’s rumors that insiders working for the DLBA are releasing confidential bidding information to other individuals. The corruption just won’t ever stop.
Oakland County is one of the most racist places I’ve ever been. Talk about the corrupt judges like “the bowtie killers” or the prosecutors office or Sheriff Bouchard and what’s going on inside Oakland County jail. One of the biggest profit makers in OC is that private jail.
When the migrants from the south came to Detroit it changed the city forever. 1916-1929 was the first wave and the second was after WWII into the 1970s. Coleman Young a southerner, took the city down and if you knew anyone in law enforcement you would hear of more stories of Coleman Young ripping the city off. As for as Chief Hart's matters, he took the fall for Coleman and Coleman was just as guilty. In the 1980s, Detroit received millions in aid to build housing and Coleman Young squandered all of that money but you won't hear of it in the media.
I’ve lived in Metro Detroit most of my life. My favorite quote from the Coleman Young era: “I don’t know NOTHIN bout no goddamn Kugerands…!!!” He was an awful person through and through…!
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Downstate Illinois resident here. I'm well aware that they send the political crooks to Springfield and the non-political crooks to Danville.
Chris, be careful. I have family members who are from Detroit and were surprised by that you would be so open by this even though all of this has been in the news.
It must have been quite difficult picking and choosing who made it into this video to prevent this from being a yearlong miniseries. Any large city would have a similar list of corruption, the length of which would only be limited by how long the city was in existence. Also for every criminal count we hear about, how many more counts and people didn't get found, or enough evidence to prosecute on.
What I always found interesting was that Kirkpatrick was re-elected in 2006. This was prior to most of the official investigations had concluded, but most people knew "things were not right" !
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 inpierslly saw him at the World Series/Super Bowl in Detroit. He shook down every vendor for comps and free merchandise for his grift. They all knew, too bad you’ll give him a pass. 😠
@@latexsolarbeef4990 right. One man does bad so your guy can do bad. Kwame burned the little guy from day one. Just got busted shaking ppl down for a condo in the fla. So he can be near Trump I guess. ( pardoned him) hun.
Highland Park is bad right now too. The city recently raided and shut down a legal cannabis business, then offered to give the building back only if the owners bought them a new police cruiser.
Thanks Chris for this informative video. It really helps to understand why the recent decline of Detroit has happened. It is so sad to see the condition of this once mighty city with so much innovation and cultural history just lost and soon forgotten. I think you make some of the best content on TH-cam so please keep it up ! Best regards Tom
And yet. If Coleman young was still alive. He would be still the mayor at a hundred and twenty years olds. Because African Americans don't vote nobody out of office. We as a people vote on name recognition only. That why the city will never change.
Can’t really agree since his illegitimate son with the same last name lost running on his fathers name. Also a city that is probably 80% black elected a white mayor who has done a good job.
@@sheneedsme Coleman young so called son. Came back to Detroit. An change his name to Coleman young jr. To capitalize on it. It worked because he was a state senator and now he is on the Detroit city council.
If you drive through Palmer Park or Indian Village area or Midtown Detroit people would be shocked how beautiful and prosperous a big part of the city is.
Detroit has a geographic advantage being on the great lakes,and cheap affordable real estate.And with current water shortages and heat waves out west Detroit is going gentrify very fast.Billionares and investors are not just buying up land and housing in Detroit for fun it's gonna be a big pay off.
This guy doesn't talk about the behind the scene corruption in the city. He talks about the obvious. Our bankruptcy didn't need to happen and ended up allowing GLWA to form and control the water dept. Charging detroit companies excessive fees monthly from all commercial and industrial properties. Rain water assessed for the water that hits the roofs and paved lots that run off into the sewer system. Certain developers and companies are excluded from these charges showing the fraud perpetrated against the honest businesses. Where is the FBI, oh. They weren't told to address this issue. Many issues, leases of properties to the city government. Mostly developers and realestate companies are behind this issue plus many more.
His video is clearly slanted. He never mentions the racial dynamics that played a role as if Kwame was the single ONLY reason Detroit went into decline. Then makes Duggan out to be accepted not knowing he's the biggest grifter there is!🤦
Hello. .. I was wondering how much crap of greatness I had to read before someone put this video on blast, ppl love to put the blame on others than to stand fairly and speak across board and talk about all corruption instead who they chose to point out ✍🏽 💣💥🔥
The problem is the taxes! You can buy a relatively ok house in a relatively ok neighborhood for fairly cheap but then get raped by the property back taxes that can be five six times the price if the house. It’s ridiculous
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv That doesn't mean there isn't political competition though, just that the competition happens in the primaries. One-party rule isn't the issue -- it's individual corruption.
I’m from Michigan and I’ve been to Detroit many times you are one of the most knowledgeable TH-cam bloggers that I know of you’re amazing what a wealth of information how sad Detroit is
Having spent significant time in Philly and Detroit, I can say Detroit and Philly are both bad. Philly however, also suffers from a serious case of East Coast syndrome. Very unfriendly people to boot, people in Detroit are generally much friendlier.
Considering Dan Gilbert is a member of the WEF, making Detroit the hub of WEF Urbanization global initiatives, and mayor Duggan approves of all of this, yes!!
Just a 40 minute, unedited drive of never-ending destruction. The vast extent of corruption is overwhelming, and these are just the ones who got caught! It was very eye-opening to see that the state of Michigan grew fairly significantly in every decade but one, being a rust belt state. This magnifies even more the horror that has consumed Detroit since the 60s. In the end, the residents who empower these corrupt leaders have some blame of their own. How they can whiff this many times on their choice becomes something more than bad luck, or coincidence.
Detroit is also corrupt. Mike Duggan is very corrupt. Doing back door deals with City Council. People think it is about color it is not. It started with Kwame and his corruption, It is no different. That land bank, Demolition. Mike is very much involved. The FBI have been watching him They only care about downtown. Not the rest of the city. Tale of two cities. City Council does whatever he will tell them to do. He gives them what they want. Some of the people here think because they voted for a white mayor then The corruption is gone. Not. It just continues. No police, Closing schools. He does not care. All about downtown.
@@kimberlystrong1912 Interesting, Duggan and Bing were the only ones this video had nothing bad to say about. No, the corruption began way before Kilpatrick, Young was probably the worst. And several others before Kilpatrick were also mentioned in this video, city council members, police chiefs etc. Evil flocks to money every time, and Detroit was the most prosperous city in the nation, and had the highest income per capita in the world in the 50s. It was only a short matter of time later that the corrupt politicians started getting busted left and right, coming out of the woodwork.
Also, this isn’t the auto industries fault. This is the mayors that didn’t do anything about the pollution and damage to the city. They just took in money and didn’t ask questions. This is why Duggan was a good pick for us because he’s not only no nonsense but he also is about being clear about what he does and how’s its being done.
It saddens me to see how a city just always killing any and every age from babies to elders!The enemy really got this city in his hands! Greed, greed! No love for others or themselves!!
My whole family is originally from Detroit. They had to move out after the riots at some point as it was extremely unsafe. 😥💔 We're still in Michigan around the Detroit area, but it is not the same. 😥 The police don't respond in Detroit unless someone is dying. 🤷🏻♀️😥💔 Edit**not to say it's the worst place ever. Just don't get involved in some shit. Carry protection. And watch out for stray dogs lol. As always, in any city, travelling in groups is preferred.
I'm from Detroit. I'm 47 years old. I grew up in the heart of the north west side. 6mile and Wyoming is the major cross streets. This video and others that he post are simply accurate. My mother was shot 17 times and murdered for her jewelry. I grew up thinking that was normal and was never surprised by crime. i was adopted by my grandparents and they placed me in Catholic school from 1rst grade till 10th grade. By the time I was in 8th grade, I was selling weed to my classmates parents. By high school I was selling weed by the pound and maybe 2lbs per week in 5 and 10 dollar bags. Eventually I moved to cocaine by the time I was 20. I was actually using the money I made to pay my was thru electronic school untill eventually I was found in possession of cocaine by a neighboring cities law enforcement team. I was sentenced to prison for 7 years. In that time I learned a lot about myself. I was released in 2007. When I came home life here moved so fast. So many ppl was hustling and scamming I really didn't know anyone who worked. Detroit is a city where there's really no where to go. Schools only offer three types of sports basketball baseball and football. Thing like tennis golf or even chess, are no even a reality. Kids here are grown because in this city you must adapt fast. Because it forever unfolding. Unlike places like Texas or California, Detroit is small. You have to make a certain way because everyone knows everyone. But what this video doesn't explain is all the other places where he says it's nicer belongs to ppl who go out of this trap. And white ppl move farther north from 8 mile as blacks are moving out of Detroit. Livonia and Gross Point Farms are not Detroit.
@CeanMurq I just read your comment. It nearly brought me to tears. Hopefully you are doing better than good. I had no idea Detroit is this bad! As I read these comments I can't believe people are this openedly mean and corrupted. What in the hell have these people seen to cause them to be so unstabled. Hopefully all is well.
Politicians and Prosecutors in Detroit and bordering suburbs and at the 3rd Circuit Court lately to getting heavily involved with fabricating excessive criminal charges on small business owners and home owners to sell their businesses and properties at a reduced price while keeping them locked up in the Wayne County Jail on high bonds knowing most people cant afford to hire attorneys to fight civil and criminal case and pay their bills while being locked up. Wayne County Prosecutors are under paid and well connected criminal defendants just have to wait until the case gets transferred to Wayne County from the district courts and get a trial judge and prosecutor assigned then retain an attorney that personally deals with the prosecutor= plea to misdemeanor or dismissed (especially sex crimes due to a heavy lesbian managed prosecutors office!).
Your insight and detail on the corruption is notable. Can I refer you to a song written during Coleman Young's term. It was played on several Detroit radio stations. It was titled "He be the Mayor". I only remember the line "A lot of sweat and toil went into that deal with Magnum Oil". Everyone knew he was corrupt, they just ignored it.
Hi Chris! A great job! You sounded a little "surprised" about the name of Pershing High School's mascot, the "Doughboys." The high school was named after John J. Pershing, the commander of US forces in Europe during World War One. The common, popular nickname for US infantrymen during World War One was "doughboy."
WTF? Kirkpatrick moved to FL? now I've got to move again... 😠 can't seem to get away from the shysters... it isn't safe to move to Detroit since the current Mayor was the 'bagman' back in the day...
As a lifelong resident of Detroit and surrounding cities I can say Detroit is absolutely a paradox. There is so much beauty and so much poverty. Unfortunately Kwame kilpatrick actually kick started the revamp the city so desperately needed. And unfortunately the entire southeast area (especially Macomb county) is corrupt to the core... And definitely mob related.(whether or not people believe it).
And as bad is the known money loss is, it is my opinion there is a much greater money loss that cannot be calculated. That is the investment money that never came into Detroit because of it's reputation.
This was a great video and like you said, it only scratched the surface. I recall some educators and vendors running a pretty expensive scheme not long ago. A vendor who was living in a mansion in Bloomfield hills I believe was selling school supplies but the supplies never arrived and school officials cut checks with the. Vendor kicking back a %. It involved several schools in Detroit (there may have been some outside detroit) I’m not sure what the consequences were but probably not enough as usual.
Heard of MANY kids in Detroit say, they don't even bother to pass out the books. They even justify it by saying they'll just get lost or damaged. Disgusting!
When you try to correct the corruption you must also worry about someone trying to take you out, of this world! Scary job! I hope the mayor has a dedicated teaM of people to back him and the city. Damn!
Charles Pugh interviewed me once while he was a tv reporter and I was on the Board of Director of a local charity advertising an event. He never looked me in the eye and was completely disinterested in anything that was being said. I found him to be narcissistic and arrogant.
As a note about Bachelor degree holders in the area. Its pretty common to be under employed if you hold one in Michigan. I work in a big box retailer and a number of hourly employees have a degree.
This is off topic for this video but I can't help but think the Bachelor Degree crisis and student loan debt should be investigated, I am of the opinion we shouldn't give student loans to people to obtain a degree that won't allow them to pay it back. Only loan to a select number of degrees that are useful to what we currently need as a society.
40% of recent college graduates are underemployed. Too many of them with useless degrees, the employers love to hire at a discount price. After all, it's a market economy, isn't it?
It's interesting. It's a Social Workers dream to work up here and practice Mental Health. Mental Health is in desperate need everywhere. I got called every day all day and had my pick of the lot w the best salary. Living in SC, a small pool of jobs, making 15,000 less. Perspective is everything. Id love to know what degrees aren't working up here- it would make sense to go where jobs are in the degree you have vs. working at a Big Box Retailer making nothing? If u wanna go where jobs are in Education you go to where there are colleges or good schools to Teach in...Teachers are screwed unless u work in higher Ed or for a Private school. What would be a worthless degree? Asking for a friend
The Riverwalk through the Uniroyal site to under the Belle Isle Bridge could had been completed this summer but the project stalled again. Is the money being used for something else? Is the contractor over the project prolonging it completion to keep getting money for another year
There is a good reason why some people should Not be aloud to vote, get educated before you vote know what & who you are voting for! This is one of your best videos!
It doesnt matter what we the people do, the polititions are gonna do what they want, much like it is done in all of government. None of them are held accountable, they all lye and they only care about themself! Its ridiculous.
Dude, coming from someone who lives in Michigan it's not just in Detroit it's Michigan itself. I fully believe that if we are to see any changes we need a complete overhaul on all levels. Even the ford's are dirty.
Everything about Detroit corruption could be said about New Orleans, La, Camden NJ, Philadelphia PA, Baton Rouge LA, Memphis TN, St Louis MO, Many places in California, NYC, and definitely Chicago. Detroit just heavily relied on auto manufacturing which collapsed there in the 1970s.
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LOL, I thought you were Chris Hansen.
You should visit both Youngstown Ohio and Niagara Falls New York and do videos on their political corruption and how organized crime controlled both cities.
It's call research
@@r.pres.4121 ,
You could find just as much corruption in every city, county, state and federal agency everywhere.
Y'all just jealous of this successful bruthaman Kilpatrick.
I was born in Detroit, my parents too. Grandparents came from Canada before 1900. What happened to this city, which was the most prosperous in the US in 1950 can happen anywhere. My father had to sell all my grandfathers properties, in the early 70's, because you couldn't collect rent. Owe 6 mo rent, pay one, city wouldn't allow eviction. Ended up being sold to Detroit cops at a massive discount, who could 'encourage' payment. So who benefited? The renters? They ended up harassed until they paid up by their new landlord. The 60's weren't great for the city, but the 70's set the stage for what happened later. If you look at a sat view of the city, remember all the empty lots had homes and families in them at one time. Detroit is an example to the rest of the country, don't think it can't happen to you.
When we visited Detroit, we would drive past places and my mother would cry as they were gone. I have problems even watching this as I'm sure I rode past these places when homes and people walked and lived.
My family and watched it happen in Jersey City starting in the 60's. It's sad to watch your history destroyed.
I just moved to Detroit and bought a home for $1000 it’s so sad that they’re so run down and that anyone could buy one to fix up for that small of an amount. As I drive past the homes that we’re burned down by vandalism or just because people had to leave them. It makes me think of how beautiful this city use to be 100 years ago and how corrupt it is today.. people still throwing Their trash out the car windows instead of finding a garbage can or lazy around here and it ticks me off! Most of the time I hate to say it there colored people because if you watch the videos 100 years ago when the city was flourishing It was full of white people and then when the 1960s and 70s hit the white people left the community and the colored people stayed and just destroyed it. And not saying that because I’m racist I’m saying it because I’m actually witnessing it they’re not taking pride in anything but they have and they just gladly throw their garbage out the window to make the city look horrible don’t understand just because you’re poor doesn’t mean we have to live in a trash hole community. I’m just saying I’ve witnessed this by moving here myself the first house we moved into a few months ago we kept to ourselves and it wasn’t fun waking up to bullets being sprayed into our house by colored people luckily no one was hurt or killed so we decided to move and find another house we went back a day and a half later To finish getting our belongings And the landlord that was renting that house to us decided to be a jerk and set it on fire! I know this to be true because his car was gone out of the garage the next day. Also very sad that if you are a white person coming into Detroit there are very many still racist color people that take a look at you and they try to find a way to make it hard for you to live around them it’s sad I don’t understand why everybody can just get along and quit pulling the racist card or your white card you have white privilege heard that many times and that’s not the case I’m sorry if I like my house clean picked up and garbage not around my house I just wish everybody could get together and make this city beautiful once again instead of fighting with each other and having guns go off in the middle of the night around My house in neighborhood I wish everybody would just get along and make everything look beautiful again rather than leave it as a dive hole
@@lindsaydelyon3363 you are witnessing the reasons and attitudes that continue the downward spiral.... no surprise your house went for a thousand dollars... good luck... hope you have at least a few good neighbors
@@lindsaydelyon3363 yea but what makes your comment racist, is that when you meet a "colored" person born and raised in a nice neighborhood they don't act like that. It's all about environment, the behavior your referring to stems from living in poverty in densely populated areas, which results in broken households that cause kids to grow up in a life of crime and stupidity not just because its one of the only ways for them to make money, but because if they went on a better path they would be treated like garbage from everyone around them and they don't have the money to get away, and they don't know any better. Understand this and you'll no longer think that only "colored people" behave like that..
Sorry for the story brother, the same thing is happening in the city of St.Louis as well my friend.
I'm from Flint and I loved this. Thank you for going over the corruption
Young would also label black critics as being racist….
Detroit has a proud history of applauding public officials who rob them blind. I've been trying to make sense of this since kilpatrick.
I'm 34, from the burbs, and I wish I knew more of the political opinions of detroiters. It seemed like so many people defended kilpatrick. I could be mistaken due to my flawed point of view. I do love the city, though.
There was one good mayor when I lived there. Dennis Archer deserves a mention as a positive or at least trying to do the right thing.
He was incredible. I worked on both of his campaigns. I truly wanted Freeman Hendrix, his deputy to be the successor. But Detroit wanted corrupt politics and elected the worst mistake ever and it's struggled to recover.
I'm not a Detroiter. But, I read that both Dennis Archer and Freeman Hendrix were considered not "black enough" for the black peoples of Detroit. Which is a total shame.
Continue to elect "victims" with chips on their shoulders and who feel entitled, and you will win stupid prizes.
Bingo
Dude what a reversal. A whole crowd of victims desecrated the capitol over some made up b.s. I'm just saying.
@@vernardbrock5794 right. have a cookie
I live in a van on Clark Street where I work as a truck driver, a freaking 13 year old robbed me at gunpoint in broad daylight In front of a gas station, he was caught the next day robbing a elderly black Vietnam veteran
Mike Dougan is a Multi Millionaire..he’s the Villain not Victim. This creator is skewed and political. Trust from a Citizen. Detroit was Happier with the older Mayors.
I truly enjoyed your video. I'm a big Detroit supporter and it breaks by heart to hear these stories. I hope Detroit will see much better days. Go Lions!
Should've took every main road from downtown to 8 mile, Jefferson,Gratiot,VD, Woodward, and complimentary stroll down livernois to document our attempt at a black wall street
Although I moved to Detroit recently, I've seen horrendous things. People die of poverty and freeze in the winter. All that while those criminals embezzled millions of dollars to splurge them on cars and clothes. Disgusting.
Move...
Detroit: At least we're not Moscow
Seriously gtfo of there
Lord. WE NEED YOU! I Just moved back here. Only staying for a while. Rents cheap
the money meant for the city wouldnt have stopped homelessness or poverty. look at LA
@@Odieson33 idk look at the city during the pandemic payouts, homelessness and poverty almost disappeared for about a year. All Detroit be needing is money.
Actually, the big 3 did decline, the unions lost their leverage (some of it do to corruption), the car insurance while living in Detroit was ridiculous, property taxes in most area was high, the department store moved to the suburbs, most of the major groceries store moved to the suburbs or closed , etc. There were many reasons why people left the city including younger people not wanting to work for the big 3 as technology was on the rise.
Oh and yes some left because of the crime rate and a few corrupted leaders, but you can find this in most big cities
Oh, no, no, no, no.........the civic organizers and other Progressives ascribe it all to racism and White Flight. And you know, if you disagree with a Progressive, you, too, are a racist.
So all democrats policies are causing those.
@@thyh0lyhandgrenade No
Car Insurance in the ENTIRE State of Michigan is higher than 70 percent of the Nation due to no fault insurance - the dumbest and most expensive car insurance I've ever paid after living in 20 States
Detroit's current big problem is what to do with 10s of thousands of acres of residential and commercial abandoned buildings and land, plus many acres of closed schools. With very few manufacturing jobs nearby, this land will likely never be used for their original purpose. IMHO, much of this should be turned in farms or orchards.
i live by there bro its just entire neighborhoods been empty since like 08
I agree with that,,
There other possible solution to Detroit's current situation is to turn over huge amounts of land the the county. They won't lose much tax revenue and they will no longer be responsible any public services.
The last recession cleared the city out fr, but the free land should be used for renewable energy power plants.
No! It needs to create jobs for the inner city people specifically to lower the crime rate! Give people the necessities they need to survive you won’t have to worry about the economy. But wait, the reason why things are the way they is because IT’S BY DESIGN 😳🫢😬
Very good and a good analysis since the Colman Young era. I left in 1995. I had a business on West Grand Blvd. in the New Center area. It really is a tragedy as to what happened to Detroit since the 1950`s. Their was also corruption in the courts, the school board, etc. Certain areas in the downtown are reviving but many neighbors hoods are violent crime infested areas. Conyers, the city council women convicted of bribery was married to John Conyers,, a congressmen from Detroit who was the chairman of the House Judiciary committee. He had to resign from Congress after a long career. Excellent report.
I love how her last name is Conyer, because all she do is con yer money away. Kinda like one of those fake names they make for fake stories in the news. Never forget when they carted out George Floyd's 4th grade teacher on the news and her name was literally Wanal Sexton.
Funny you praise the current mayor but he is being investigated for corruption as we speak
Democrats are one step below god according to themselves.
Approx 50% of Detroit is functionally illiterate. My father was a teacher and said on any given day 1/4 of his class would be absent. It was never the same kids so do you go back and help them and stop the progression of the others or move on and let the others fall farther behind. He felt it was a losing proposition.
I, believe that, when I lived and grew up there you could have a intelligent conversation with some people now you better not talk to no one 😆
Facts
I call BS
@@davidcruz2346 You can call BS all you want. A simple Google search will prove you wrong. Quit being lazy and ignorant. Try looking something up before you make yourself look like a fool.
50% huh? I bet you came to that conclusion from rigorous analysis in context with reliable sources and empirical data. Get tf out of here dooder 😆🤣
If Detroit was the first city built with single-family homes for the factory workers, where a car was necessary to get around is considered a total failure. The loss of population and tax base could be an example of what is to become of many cities in the USA. We need to re-evaluate the so-called American dream as they are too expensive to maintain. You spend the city's taxes to expand in the hinterlands while not investing in the communities that are paying the taxes. Look at the difference between European cities and American cities and you will see America has neglected to invest in communities. We are our own fools, it will be very expensive to maintain what we have built, so we will see more Detroits in the future.
Huh? Nobody spent City of Detroit tax money to expand outside the borders of the City of Detroit. For a while, it was just the opposite happening once the City began to levy income taxes on non-residents who worked inside the city limits. Suburban residents were subsidizing the city via the payment of income taxes. Or, at least they did, until the employers moved en masse outside the city limits to escape the Detroit income tax. In essence, jobs and workers moved away, leaving only the elderly living on fixed incomes, the jobless, the disabled, and the very poor living in WW II aging housing that, as you point out, they could not afford to maintain. Oh, I think I must admit that a lot of City, County, and Federal employees with jobs downtown remained living in some of the nicer parts of Detroit.
The corruption described in this video blog is just the tip of the iceberg. The Detroit Public Schools are a mess, and they are a mess due to corruption.
As a native of Detroit grew up on 6 mile on the east side, and yes it absolutely is…im in denver now and i will never move back…
You have done some tremendous research keep up the work.very informative.
I left Detroit in 1969 and it is depressing to see so much corruption through all these years.
Dude, started wayyyy before you moved.
@@zenzen1916 You are correct. I mentioned that date as a marker of when I watched from outside Michigan. We had a long line of corruption.
Detroit has been destroyed
Would you say if you think it's probably gotten worse, or diminished such that there's less corruption now? I'm thinking about maybe moving there.
After 29 years in the Detroit area (inner city and Metro), Detroit will always be Detroit. There's good things happening, but only in small specific areas of the city, and everything else is still as bad as ever. Doesn't help the civilians there consistently push back against any newer businesses/housing infrastructure that's proposed there. Until the neighbors of Detroit learn to change, the culture and daily life won't change. It's all gentrification when something nice is proposed, and blind loyalty when the detectives come knocking for critical info to solve crimes. I wish Detroit the best of luck I really do. I love the Motor City.
hearted, then unhearted my comment
I just like to mess with your mind. - in all seriousness I think TH-cam just does that sometimes. I often see comments that I heart, (or respond to even) only to come back to it later and not see a heart (or my response.) Don’t know why.
@@ChrisHarden I know if a commenter Edits their comment After it's been hearted, the heart Will disappear. As for the random disappearing comment thing, TH-cam is notorious for that lately. Doesn't even seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.
@@ChrisHarden ❤️
The residents of Detroit don't want change. They do not want progress. Once out of the downtown area, Detroit is a dead city and will remain that way.
Trump's pardons of Kwame Kilpatrick and Rod Blagojevich were bizarre and obviously corrupt but they also make me wonder about all the pardons of people we've never heard of.
Somebody tried to claim that Trump didn't pardon Kilpatrick but now that person's comment is gone, guess he looked it up and realized his mistake!! 😏
He'd never pardon Assange or people like that. Rump 2024! We need a corrupt hereditary billionaire big business guy in office!
@@stephenbrand5661 Trump did pardon him. Kwame's handlers paid him. I cannot believe anyone typed that. But of course people are trying wash over everything and fake ignorance.
I never heard this!!
Pardons are pushed by Advisors ,Staffers and DOJ!
The only reason Detroit is still showing signs of hanging on and hasn't totally collapsed...you've got two billionaires competing with each other to see who can outdo the other. Venture capital has come into the city and you're seeing huge improvement in the midtown area. I grew up in West Dearborn in the 60's and 70's....Detroit was a toilet for most of those years. The filth and destruction started to move out into the burbs and my parents moved out of Dearborn 22 years ago. They now live in Berkley, MI not far off of Woodward Ave. You can drive down Woodward towards Detroit and gradually see the decline. Once you get past the gay community of Ferndale...it starts downhill fast. After you cross into Highland Park and before you cross I-94 and into the Midtown area....you're pretty much in no man's land. When you see the sign for the Detroit Institute of Arts in the Midtown area, congratulations....you've survived and are now in a relatively safe area.
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Haha very true. I lived in Detroit, Berkley and now further north on Woodward in Birmimgham and it’s exactly as you describe.
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I lived through all of this stuff and I am so ashamed of it all. The FBI should stay PERMANENTLY to oversee this city. Im the most ashamed of Kwame Kilpatrick , Charles Pugh Monica Conyers. All 3 of them should still be in prison.
Yes role models like that how dose the lure of easy money stop? If Mich. Is to weak to make examples of theses theifs you'll just get more and you'all did. Fool me once shame on me fool me twice shame on, going for another?
@@AW-ho9vq where are you from?
I agree
"The FBI should stay PERMANENTLY to oversee this city." FBI itself is a corrupt police bureaucracy.
I def agree with u wolfie
What caused Detroit to plummet was the Detroit city tax. You can see it in graphs. As soon as it was passed, Detroit began to empty out.
Correlation is not causation
I like what was said in the video better.
@@melzariodesign doesn't matter. The truth is the truth.
Thank you for everything you've put here on your channel, very informative and well done. You passed Mt. Olivet (near City airport) which is where my family burial plot is.
I really enjoy your videos Chris! I'm across the river in Windsor Ontario and sometimes you go down streets that i have been on and it's very cool, keep up the good work.
Thanks!
Thank you!
As a Lansing native I can 100% say Detroit is somehow more corrupt than Lansing. If you know Lansing politics you KNOW how corrupt it is. The automotive industries needed transformers due to their large power consumption. They petitioned the mayor for a new transformer to be built on THEIR premise, it would have worked well, after all only they needed the power. Instead the mayor ripped up and destroyed one of most beautiful and largest sunken gardens in the United States. To replace it with a concrete slab and some transformers. It's horrible, many people had weddings and family photos there.
Where is this location that was destroyed?
@@TingTingalingy Scott Park & Sunken Garden
@@Thaddeus2007 gotcha, I thought you were saying it was in Detroit.
Truthfully it’s simple. Property taxes are absolutely absurd in Detroit for what you get out of living there. Then the money they do acquire from city taxes is consistently mismanaged year after year. Need business incentives and property incentives ran in a non-corrupt manner.
Even the Detroit Land Bank Authority that’s offering properties for $100 choke you by placing liens on your property that you acquire which doesn’t allow you to get proper financing to develop land. You essentially have to have money in hand for development. It’s completely assbackward.
Not only that, there’s rumors that insiders working for the DLBA are releasing confidential bidding information to other individuals. The corruption just won’t ever stop.
Great job, man! I really appreciate your stuff about detroit. Detroit's story is interesting and phenomenal I think, you tell it well.
Tell him to do the same investigations across 8 mile just to be fare
Oakland County is one of the most racist places I’ve ever been. Talk about the corrupt judges like “the bowtie killers” or the prosecutors office or Sheriff Bouchard and what’s going on inside Oakland County jail. One of the biggest profit makers in OC is that private jail.
When the migrants from the south came to Detroit it changed the city forever.
1916-1929 was the first wave and the second was after WWII into the 1970s.
Coleman Young a southerner, took the city down and if you knew anyone in law enforcement you would hear of more stories of Coleman Young ripping the city off. As for as Chief Hart's matters, he took the fall for Coleman and Coleman was just as guilty. In the 1980s, Detroit received millions in aid to build housing and Coleman Young squandered all of that money but you won't hear of it in the media.
Yep, for those of us who lived in those times, Coleman Young was the original grifter.
I’ve lived in Metro Detroit most of my life.
My favorite quote from the Coleman Young era:
“I don’t know NOTHIN bout no goddamn Kugerands…!!!”
He was an awful person through and through…!
But Brooks Patterson wasn’t?? Lol smh
Thanks for another great video Chris. Watching from Australia, I love your in depth views on the city's you visit. Keep the great viewing coming.
I feel ashamed that a person from the other side of the world is seeing the shame and embarrassments of my city. I guess the world IS watching....😔
All that corruption has turned the people sour. I hate driving through detroit because of how much road rage there is from so many people.
It's absolutely Chicago, no contest ever.
You forgot that Springfield Illinois exists. That's where Chicago sends the most corrupt politicians
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Downstate Illinois resident here. I'm well aware that they send the political crooks to Springfield and the non-political crooks to Danville.
Chicago along with New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore were all highly corrupt throughout much of their histories.
Chris, be careful. I have family members who are from Detroit and were surprised by that you would be so open by this even though all of this has been in the news.
It must have been quite difficult picking and choosing who made it into this video to prevent this from being a yearlong miniseries.
Any large city would have a similar list of corruption, the length of which would only be limited by how long the city was in existence.
Also for every criminal count we hear about, how many more counts and people didn't get found, or enough evidence to prosecute on.
As they say White flight.
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What I always found interesting was that Kirkpatrick was re-elected in 2006. This was prior to most of the official investigations had concluded, but most people knew "things were not right" !
Ignorant people voting over and over for people destroying the city. As Obama said, elections have consequences.
Check the skin tone, that will answer any questions you may have.
What’s even more interesting is why President Trump chose to commute his sentence, but completely ignored pardoning Julian Assange and Edward Snowden
@@russs7574 But he had his sentence commuted by the most racist and facist president ever 🤔
You stay try to make all the Black people look bad!
Nice job on this. Lived there. Saw it all and more. Crazy thing is the ppl of Detroit would back these corrupt fools out of some strange loyalty??
Kilpatrick did nothing wrong
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 inpierslly saw him at the World Series/Super Bowl in Detroit. He shook down every vendor for comps and free merchandise for his grift. They all knew, too bad you’ll give him a pass. 😠
..just like twump voters..fantasy land..they didn't care..'kwami got his'..and they still like him..
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 ...uh huh..and neither did twump..read above reply hun..
@@latexsolarbeef4990 right. One man does bad so your guy can do bad. Kwame burned the little guy from day one. Just got busted shaking ppl down for a condo in the fla. So he can be near Trump I guess. ( pardoned him) hun.
Highland Park is bad right now too. The city recently raided and shut down a legal cannabis business, then offered to give the building back only if the owners bought them a new police cruiser.
Highland park and Detroit are too dangerous for me to fly over
Thanks Chris for this informative video. It really helps to understand why the recent decline of Detroit has happened. It is so sad to see the condition of this once mighty city with so much innovation and cultural history just lost and soon forgotten. I think you make some of the best content on TH-cam so please keep it up !
Best regards Tom
Give it a few years and they'll name a city owned building after Kilpatrick.
If they do that I’m officially giving up all hopes for the city
The corruption has been the equivalent of throwing salt into the wound.
Great job, Chris! You sure did your homework.
And yet. If Coleman young was still alive. He would be still the mayor at a hundred and twenty years olds. Because African Americans don't vote nobody out of office. We as a people vote on name recognition only. That why the city will never change.
Can’t really agree since his illegitimate son with the same last name lost running on his fathers name. Also a city that is probably 80% black elected a white mayor who has done a good job.
@@sheneedsme Coleman young so called son. Came back to Detroit. An change his name to Coleman young jr. To capitalize on it. It worked because he was a state senator and now he is on the Detroit city council.
I lived for more than 10 years in this city, and its corrupt city to the core. Invest elsewhere, I am there because my realtives are there thats it.
I see in this documentary Mike Duggan was given a pass. Trust & Believe his hands are not clean.
Clean enough
Who cares it's detroit
If you drive through Palmer Park or Indian Village area or Midtown Detroit people would be shocked how beautiful and prosperous a big part of the city is.
I agree, Indian Village and Palmer Woods are nice neighborhoods. University Heights and Boston Edison too. Midtown has some good momentum.
Detroit has a geographic advantage being on the great lakes,and cheap affordable real estate.And with current water shortages and heat waves out west Detroit is going gentrify very fast.Billionares and investors are not just buying up land and housing in Detroit for fun it's gonna be a big pay off.
Won't make a difference who owns what in Detroit. Those billionaires aren't moving there
"cheap affordable real estate" but no buyers.
With what industries and jobs to support it?
There was a time when Detroit was the shit. Detroit was the all American Motor City. Now? Makes me sad.😎😎😎
This guy doesn't talk about the behind the scene corruption in the city. He talks about the obvious. Our bankruptcy didn't need to happen and ended up allowing GLWA to form and control the water dept. Charging detroit companies excessive fees monthly from all commercial and industrial properties. Rain water assessed for the water that hits the roofs and paved lots that run off into the sewer system. Certain developers and companies are excluded from these charges showing the fraud perpetrated against the honest businesses. Where is the FBI, oh. They weren't told to address this issue. Many issues, leases of properties to the city government. Mostly developers and realestate companies are behind this issue plus many more.
Do some investigating into the suburbs to not seem one sided. Corruption is in the burbs to bro
As a person who was born in Detroit and who is proud of it, I have to ask, what rock did Harden crawl out from under?
Most of us left the city because of crime sir it was bad no cops took forever for them to come on a call up to 8 hours
You start out the video making Duggan an innocent player in problems. His side piece gets a 100k severance and the job offered no severance!
His video is clearly slanted. He never mentions the racial dynamics that played a role as if Kwame was the single ONLY reason Detroit went into decline. Then makes Duggan out to be accepted not knowing he's the biggest grifter there is!🤦
Hello. .. I was wondering how much crap of greatness I had to read before someone put this video on blast, ppl love to put the blame on others than to stand fairly and speak across board and talk about all corruption instead who they chose to point out ✍🏽 💣💥🔥
The problem is the taxes! You can buy a relatively ok house in a relatively ok neighborhood for fairly cheap but then get raped by the property back taxes that can be five six times the price if the house. It’s ridiculous
Detroit was jacked up way before Kwame was ever heard of.
Chicago has a terrible mayor right now. Not a fan of these political leaders but hopefully things get better.
Notice something about both these cities? They have both been ruled by one party for decades.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv yeah, that's 1 of the reasons I want to leave Michigan all together.
@@MrTaeDaniel Don't blame ya. We just fled New York for very similar reasons
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv That doesn't mean there isn't political competition though, just that the competition happens in the primaries.
One-party rule isn't the issue -- it's individual corruption.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv don't make it political
I’m from Michigan and I’ve been to Detroit many times you are one of the most knowledgeable TH-cam bloggers that I know of you’re amazing what a wealth of information how sad Detroit is
Seven Mile and VanDyke here. Born 1960. Always loved my Detroit (worked Buddy's Pizza 79-81, six and Conant). Detroit still rocks!
@5:00-5:10 Oh I can’t wait to try out that “Bike lane” 🤣🤣
I thank you for all of your hard work driving around the city of detroit.
I live in Philly. If it's worse there than here, then Detroit needs to be a smoldering hole.
Phl is corrupt, just look at elections.... trouble is, people don't demand more
Not as bad as Philly
It's already a smoldering hole.
Having spent significant time in Philly and Detroit, I can say Detroit and Philly are both bad. Philly however, also suffers from a serious case of East Coast syndrome. Very unfriendly people to boot, people in Detroit are generally much friendlier.
Considering Dan Gilbert is a member of the WEF, making Detroit the hub of WEF Urbanization global initiatives, and mayor Duggan approves of all of this, yes!!
Just a 40 minute, unedited drive of never-ending destruction. The vast extent of corruption is overwhelming, and these are just the ones who got caught!
It was very eye-opening to see that the state of Michigan grew fairly significantly in every decade but one, being a rust belt state. This magnifies even more the horror that has consumed Detroit since the 60s. In the end, the residents who empower these corrupt leaders have some blame of their own. How they can whiff this many times on their choice becomes something more than bad luck, or coincidence.
Detroit is also corrupt. Mike Duggan is very corrupt. Doing back door deals with City Council. People think it is about color it is not. It started with Kwame and his corruption, It is no different. That land bank, Demolition. Mike is very much involved. The FBI have been watching him They only care about downtown. Not the rest of the city. Tale of two cities. City Council does whatever he will tell them to do. He gives them what they want. Some of the people here think because they voted for a white mayor then The corruption is gone. Not. It just continues. No police, Closing schools. He does not care. All about downtown.
@@kimberlystrong1912
Interesting, Duggan and Bing were the only ones this video had nothing bad to say about. No, the corruption began way before Kilpatrick, Young was probably the worst. And several others before Kilpatrick were also mentioned in this video, city council members, police chiefs etc. Evil flocks to money every time, and Detroit was the most prosperous city in the nation, and had the highest income per capita in the world in the 50s. It was only a short matter of time later that the corrupt politicians started getting busted left and right, coming out of the woodwork.
John, this is what happens when the concept of affirmative action gets carried into the polling places.
Keep voting Democrat and every city and town in the entire country will look like Detroit. I grew up here. It hasn't changed much in 40 years.
All our USA cities are suffering failure. What is causing these problems.... poverty and blind and greedy politicians!
Also, this isn’t the auto industries fault. This is the mayors that didn’t do anything about the pollution and damage to the city. They just took in money and didn’t ask questions. This is why Duggan was a good pick for us because he’s not only no nonsense but he also is about being clear about what he does and how’s its being done.
It saddens me to see how a city just always killing any and every age from babies to elders!The enemy really got this city in his hands! Greed, greed! No love for others or themselves!!
My whole family is originally from Detroit. They had to move out after the riots at some point as it was extremely unsafe. 😥💔 We're still in Michigan around the Detroit area, but it is not the same. 😥 The police don't respond in Detroit unless someone is dying. 🤷🏻♀️😥💔
Edit**not to say it's the worst place ever. Just don't get involved in some shit. Carry protection. And watch out for stray dogs lol. As always, in any city, travelling in groups is preferred.
I'm from Detroit. I'm 47 years old. I grew up in the heart of the north west side. 6mile and Wyoming is the major cross streets. This video and others that he post are simply accurate. My mother was shot 17 times and murdered for her jewelry. I grew up thinking that was normal and was never surprised by crime. i was adopted by my grandparents and they placed me in Catholic school from 1rst grade till 10th grade. By the time I was in 8th grade, I was selling weed to my classmates parents. By high school I was selling weed by the pound and maybe 2lbs per week in 5 and 10 dollar bags. Eventually I moved to cocaine by the time I was 20. I was actually using the money I made to pay my was thru electronic school untill eventually I was found in possession of cocaine by a neighboring cities law enforcement team. I was sentenced to prison for 7 years. In that time I learned a lot about myself. I was released in 2007. When I came home life here moved so fast. So many ppl was hustling and scamming I really didn't know anyone who worked. Detroit is a city where there's really no where to go. Schools only offer three types of sports basketball baseball and football. Thing like tennis golf or even chess, are no even a reality. Kids here are grown because in this city you must adapt fast. Because it forever unfolding. Unlike places like Texas or California, Detroit is small. You have to make a certain way because everyone knows everyone. But what this video doesn't explain is all the other places where he says it's nicer belongs to ppl who go out of this trap. And white ppl move farther north from 8 mile as blacks are moving out of Detroit. Livonia and Gross Point Farms are not Detroit.
@CeanMurq I just read your comment. It nearly brought me to tears. Hopefully you are doing better than good. I had no idea Detroit is this bad! As I read these comments I can't believe people are this openedly mean and corrupted. What in the hell have these people seen to cause them to be so unstabled. Hopefully all is well.
Politicians and Prosecutors in Detroit and bordering suburbs and at the 3rd Circuit Court lately to getting heavily involved with fabricating excessive criminal charges on small business owners and home owners to sell their businesses and properties at a reduced price while keeping them locked up in the Wayne County Jail on high bonds knowing most people cant afford to hire attorneys to fight civil and criminal case and pay their bills while being locked up. Wayne County Prosecutors are under paid and
well connected criminal defendants just have to wait until the case gets transferred to Wayne County from the district courts and get a trial judge and prosecutor assigned then retain an attorney that personally deals with the prosecutor= plea to misdemeanor or dismissed (especially sex crimes due to a heavy lesbian managed prosecutors office!).
It just happened to me in Oakland County. I spent months in jail due to a conservative judge and feminist prosecutor that hates black men.
NBA Hall of Fame Spencer Haywood and Steve Smith went to Pershing
No. Chicago will always win that title. Detroit is just more petty and stupid corrupt.
Your insight and detail on the corruption is notable. Can I refer you to a song written during Coleman Young's term. It was played on several Detroit radio stations. It was titled "He be the Mayor". I only remember the line "A lot of sweat and toil went into that deal with Magnum Oil". Everyone knew he was corrupt, they just ignored it.
Hi Chris! A great job! You sounded a little "surprised" about the name of Pershing High School's mascot, the "Doughboys." The high school was named after John J. Pershing, the commander of US forces in Europe during World War One. The common, popular nickname for US infantrymen during World War One was "doughboy."
Thanks! Can’t remember how I said it in the vid… I think I remember seeing something about that though right after making this.
Seventeen pounds of sausage for a bribe!?! Say it isn't so!
Lmao. The things you learn.
WTF? Kirkpatrick moved to FL? now I've got to move again... 😠
can't seem to get away from the shysters...
it isn't safe to move to Detroit since the current Mayor was the 'bagman' back in the day...
..desantis is the same load of sh*t with a different tie..wake up..
Interesting video and story. G
As a lifelong resident of Detroit and surrounding cities I can say Detroit is absolutely a paradox. There is so much beauty and so much poverty. Unfortunately Kwame kilpatrick actually kick started the revamp the city so desperately needed. And unfortunately the entire southeast area (especially Macomb county) is corrupt to the core... And definitely mob related.(whether or not people believe it).
good video my dude
The Persian doughboys is a commendable name a doughboy is a infantry men from World War I. Hence the name Persian a famous general from the time
Interesting. Didn't know.
You must not be from Detroit because Its Pershing not Persian and the school is named after General Pershing lol
@@mrq2044 Maybe it was an autocorrect problem
And as bad is the known money loss is, it is my opinion there is a much greater money loss that cannot be calculated. That is the investment money that never came into Detroit because of it's reputation.
Good point.
This was a great video and like you said, it only scratched the surface. I recall some educators and vendors running a pretty expensive scheme not long ago. A vendor who was living in a mansion in Bloomfield hills I believe was selling school supplies but the supplies never arrived and school officials cut checks with the. Vendor kicking back a %. It involved several schools in Detroit (there may have been some outside detroit) I’m not sure what the consequences were but probably not enough as usual.
Heard of MANY kids in Detroit say, they don't even bother to pass out the books. They even justify it by saying they'll just get lost or damaged. Disgusting!
When you try to correct the corruption you must also worry about someone trying to take you out, of this world! Scary job! I hope the mayor has a dedicated teaM of people to back him and the city. Damn!
how true... people will kill you to protect a 5K or lower scam.... part of the sport...
I’d sooner live in Detroit then anywhere in Cali, that’s for dang sure
Detroit deserves everything they’ve voted for.
37 min mark seen a car run a red light. Grew up in Detroit Dearborn and lots of good in the area and lots of bad.
Charles Pugh interviewed me once while he was a tv reporter and I was on the Board of Director of a local charity advertising an event. He never looked me in the eye and was completely disinterested in anything that was being said. I found him to be narcissistic and arrogant.
As a note about Bachelor degree holders in the area. Its pretty common to be under employed if you hold one in Michigan. I work in a big box retailer and a number of hourly employees have a degree.
That's starting to be pretty common across the country unfortunately.
This is off topic for this video but I can't help but think the Bachelor Degree crisis and student loan debt should be investigated, I am of the opinion we shouldn't give student loans to people to obtain a degree that won't allow them to pay it back. Only loan to a select number of degrees that are useful to what we currently need as a society.
40% of recent college graduates are underemployed. Too many of them with useless degrees, the employers love to hire at a discount price. After all, it's a market economy, isn't it?
It's interesting. It's a Social Workers dream to work up here and practice Mental Health. Mental Health is in desperate need everywhere. I got called every day all day and had my pick of the lot w the best salary. Living in SC, a small pool of jobs, making 15,000 less. Perspective is everything. Id love to know what degrees aren't working up here- it would make sense to go where jobs are in the degree you have vs. working at a Big Box Retailer making nothing? If u wanna go where jobs are in Education you go to where there are colleges or good schools to Teach in...Teachers are screwed unless u work in higher Ed or for a Private school. What would be a worthless degree? Asking for a friend
Skilled trades is the way to go in the Metro Detroit area.
The Riverwalk through the Uniroyal site to under the Belle Isle Bridge could had been completed this summer but the project stalled again. Is the money being used for something else? Is the contractor over the project prolonging it completion to keep getting money for another year
Mayor Maryanne went to jail he was Detroits last republican mayor this was about in the mid 1950's I would say.
Even worse than New Orleans?????!!!!!
Nothing can be as bad as all of Louisiana.
$2.99 a gallon for gas seems like a bargain.
Insightful and horrifying. How has gov corruption gone unchecked for so long? Mean while I work 60 hrs a week just to stay afloat. SHAMEFUL
Wealthy people run everything and they decide what goes down and what they build. Corruption is everywhere
Detroit kicked the wealthy people out. Detroit’s main problem is the criminal underclass runs it. They should wish wealthy people ran it.
There is a good reason why some people should Not be aloud to vote, get educated before you vote know what & who you are voting for! This is one of your best videos!
It doesnt matter what we the people do, the polititions are gonna do what they want, much like it is done in all of government. None of them are held accountable, they all lye and they only care about themself! Its ridiculous.
Literally the neighborhood I grew up in. I saw my street in this Video lol
Dude, coming from someone who lives in Michigan it's not just in Detroit it's Michigan itself. I fully believe that if we are to see any changes we need a complete overhaul on all levels. Even the ford's are dirty.
Very Thorough reporting. I remember when Coleman Young had his picture taken with a group of gang members...What a leader.
Without watching even one minute, YES IT IS!!!
Everything about Detroit corruption could be said about New Orleans, La, Camden NJ, Philadelphia PA, Baton Rouge LA, Memphis TN, St Louis MO, Many places in California, NYC, and definitely Chicago. Detroit just heavily relied on auto manufacturing which collapsed there in the 1970s.